DAILY GK QUIZ: 20 , 21 JAN 2021
[Q] Where is
India’s 1st Labour Movement Museum located?
(a) Pune
(b) Vadodara
(c) Surat
(d) Alappuzha
(e) Jamshedpur
[ANS] d
[Q] Which of the
following is the Bike Ambulance, that was developed by Institute of Nuclear
Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) for CRPF?
(a) Sharang
(b) Pranash
(c) Saksham
(d) Sagar Kavach
(e) Rakshita
[ANS] e
[Q] Which state
announced the allotment of 7, 219 Fair Price Shops (FPS) across the state under
its ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgar te Karoobaar Mission’?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Karnataka
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Jharkhand
(e) Punjab
[ANS] e
[Q] Recently in
January 2021, Padma Vibushan Awardee Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan passed away. He
was a ______ Musician.
(a) Qawwali
(b) Kajari
(c) Carnatic
(d) Hindustani classical
(e) Thumri
[ANS] d
[Q] Who recently
got approval from RBI for appointment as MD & CEO of RBL Bank for 3 years,
starting from June 30, 2021?
(a) Vishwavir Ahuja
(b) Anup Kumar Sinha
(c) Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
(d) Aditya Puri
(e) Samit Ghosh
[ANS] a
[Q] Which
organisation received the Best Performance in e-Governance in the 70th SKOCH
Challenger Award, held in January 2021?
(a) Ministry of Tribal Affairs
(b) Southern Railways
(c) Department of Income Tax
(d) Ministry of Panchayati Raj
(e) Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
[ANS] a
[Q] Mark Rutte
has resigned as the Prime Minister of which country, along with his entire
cabinet?
(a) Sweden
(b) Netherlands
(c) Ireland
(d) Finland
(e) Iceland
[ANS] b
[Q] The
Government of India has planned to enter into deal with which country to
procure 21 MiG-29 and 12 Sukhoi-30MKI fighter aircraft for the Indian Air
Force?
(a) Israel
(b) United States
(c) Japan
(d) France
(e) Russia
[ANS] e
[Q] India
Digital Summit 2021 began recently. It is the flagship event of who among the
following?
(a) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(b) Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology
(c) Internet and Mobile Association of India
(d) Centre for Internet and Society
(e) Data Security Council of India
[ANS] c
[Q] Flight
lieutenant ___________ will become the 1st woman fighter pilot to take part in
the Republic Day parade.
(a) Parul Bhardwaj
(b) Khushboo Gupta
(c) Avani Chaturvedi
(d) Bhawana Kanth
(e) Mohana Singh
[ANS] d
[Q] Name the
author of the book ‘Manohar Parrikar- Off the Record’.
(a) Vimal Kapoor
(b) Sanjeev Kumar
(c) Roshan Kalra
(d) Waman Subha Prabhu
(e) Rohit Thakur
[ANS] d
[Q] What is the
theme of India Digital Summit 2021?
(a) Mission 2022 – New Pillars of Digitalization
(b) The Next Digital Leap
(c) Aatmanirbhar Bharat – Start of New Decade
(d) Enabling the New Normal
(e) Make for the World’ Initiatives
[ANS] c
[Q] Which
Organisation partnered with the Ministry of Electronics & Information
Technology (MeitY) (in January 202(a) to set up the World’s 1st Quantum Computing
Applications Lab in India?
(a) Tata Communications
(b) Amazon Web Services
(c) Tata Consultancy Services
(d) CloudEndure
(e) Microsoft Azure
[ANS] b
[Q] RBI released
the 2020 list of Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs) that included
SBI, ICICI & HDFC Banks in the list. What should be the bank’s asset to be
listed as D-SIB?
(a) Greater than 100 Crore
(b) More than 200 Crore
(c) Maintain a turnover of 200 Crore for 3
consecutive years
(d) Equal to 5 % of GDP
(e) Greater than 2% of GDP
[ANS] e
[Q] Who became
the new World Record holder (in Jan 202(a) for dismissing the most number of
Left-handed batsmen in Tests?
(a) Moeen Ali
(b) Ravichandran Ashwin
(c) Ravindra Jadeja
(d) Nathan Lyon
(e) Rashid Khan
[ANS] b
[Q] Which state
has topped the India Innovation Index 2021 released by NITI Aayog recently in
Major States category?
(a) Kerala
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Gujarat
(d) Tamil Nadu
(e) Karnataka
[ANS] e
[Q] Which
state/UT has emerged on top in the NITI Aayog’s India Innovation Index 2021?
(a) Delhi
(b) Chandigarh
(c) Goa
(d) Jammu & Kashmir
(e) Puducherry
[ANS] a
[Q] Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh has recently signed ‘Implementing Agreement on Submarine
Rescue Support and Cooperation’ with which country during the Defence
Ministers’ Dialogue (DMD) between the two nations?
(a) Russia
(b) Singapore
(c) France
(d) Nepal
(e) Japan
[ANS] b
[Q] Name the
state which has topped the India Innovation Index 2021, under the North
Eastern/Hill States category?
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Meghalaya
(c) Sikkim
(d) Uttarakhand
(e) Arunachal Pradesh
[ANS] a
[Q] Indo-French
Exercise Desert Knight-21 is the bilateral exercise of which of the following?
(a) Paramilitary forces
(b) Naval forces
(c) Armed forces
(d) Air forces
(e) Disaster relief forces
[ANS] d
[Q] Joe Biden
became the ________ President of the United States.
(a) 42nd
(b) 44th
(c) 45th
(d) 43rd
(e) 46th
[ANS] e
[Q] Which of the
following state recently launched first online youth radio station ”Radio
Hills-Youngistan Ka Dil”?
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Assam
(d) Tripura
(e) Sikkim
[ANS] b
[Q] Which of the
following state has renamed dragon fruit as ‘Kamalam’?
(a) Goa
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Gujarat
(e) Kerala
[ANS] d
[Q] One of the
oldest trains of Indian Railways, the ________ has been renamed as the ‘Netaji
Express’.
(a) Howrah-Kalka Mail
(b) Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express
(c) Jammu Mail
(d) Himalayan Queen
(e) The Toy Train
[ANS] a
[Q] The
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has appointed __________ as the managing
director of India’s largest insurer Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).
(a) TC Suseel Kumar
(b) Vipin Anand
(c) Siddhartha Mohanty
(d) Mukesh Kumar Gupta
(e) Raj Kumar
[ANS] c